Where is everyone this morning!?
Last couple of days has been hectic to say the least. Between outside work, harvesting wood, training the pups and life in general there aren't enough hours in the day.
Pups are doing great. They are growing like weeds and looking like miniature cattle dogs now. They are also smart and rowdy. They have learned to sit on command, come, play ball as well as their names. They love to terrorize the cats who have learned not to come around when they are in the house.....finally and are starting to make friends with the two older dogs. Although Buck is very tentative around them and tends to want to just crawl under a piece of furniture when they come in.
Saw my first Hummer yesterday, actually saw two. We put the feeders up earlier in the week and there were two flitting around one of them yesterday afternoon before it started to storm.
Also have been dealing with a bantam hen with an injured air sac. I saw 5 young roosters pile on her before they were chased off by the flock master but then HE piled on the poor little thing himself just to make a point that the hens were HIS and not the young males. I'm not surprised she was injured but I had to pull more young males from the pen and have 'deflated' the hen three times already. I'm formulating a plan now of which birds I have to get rid of and it includes a lot of the rammy young roos.
I also have two more hens in the broody buster. Mamma and three chicks are doing well as ar the Fayoumi juveniles who finally don't look so homely. Poor babies.
Getting set to go out and harvest more firewood.
Y'all have a great day!
Last couple of days has been hectic to say the least. Between outside work, harvesting wood, training the pups and life in general there aren't enough hours in the day.
Pups are doing great. They are growing like weeds and looking like miniature cattle dogs now. They are also smart and rowdy. They have learned to sit on command, come, play ball as well as their names. They love to terrorize the cats who have learned not to come around when they are in the house.....finally and are starting to make friends with the two older dogs. Although Buck is very tentative around them and tends to want to just crawl under a piece of furniture when they come in.
Saw my first Hummer yesterday, actually saw two. We put the feeders up earlier in the week and there were two flitting around one of them yesterday afternoon before it started to storm.
Also have been dealing with a bantam hen with an injured air sac. I saw 5 young roosters pile on her before they were chased off by the flock master but then HE piled on the poor little thing himself just to make a point that the hens were HIS and not the young males. I'm not surprised she was injured but I had to pull more young males from the pen and have 'deflated' the hen three times already. I'm formulating a plan now of which birds I have to get rid of and it includes a lot of the rammy young roos.
I also have two more hens in the broody buster. Mamma and three chicks are doing well as ar the Fayoumi juveniles who finally don't look so homely. Poor babies.
Getting set to go out and harvest more firewood.
Y'all have a great day!
